The Springs of the Sea

It is amazing (and brings glory to God) that since 1977 scientists
have proven the scientific accuracy of the Bible where it speaks
of "springs of the sea". Here are a few Internet links
that a quick search on this topic turned up.

Cone, a science writer and the communications director of Oregon
Sea Grant at OSU, is represented by an excerpt from his 1991 book
about the discovery of seafloor hot springs, "Fire Under
the Sea." The excerpt, "A Field of Worms," recounts
the discovery of an exotic seafloor world off the Oregon coast
in 1984.

Scientists from OSU's Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport
dove in a submersible nearly two miles down on the Juan de Fuca
Ridge. There they encountered a valley of geysers, which one scientist
described as "like Yellowstone underwater." Some of
the geysers were 40 feet tall and pumped out superheated water.

In this oasis of hot water amidst the normally cold ocean floor,
the scientist-explorers saw five-foot-long worms living in a large
group, "like a field of wheat." Meanwhile bacteria the
size of snowflakes floated in clumps around the worms.

In 1977, scientists discovered hot springs at a depth of 2.5
km, on the Galapagos Rift (spreading ridge) off the coast of
Ecuador. This exciting discovery was not really a surprise. Since
the early 1970s, scientists had predicted that hot springs
(geothermal vents) should be found at the active spreading centers
along the mid-oceanic ridges, where magma, at
temperatures over 1,000 °C, presumably was being erupted to
form new oceanic crust. More exciting, because it was totally
unexpected, was the discovery of abundant and unusual sea life
-- giant tube worms, huge clams, and mussels -- that thrived around
the hot springs.